Means for attaching collars and other neckwear to shirts.



Patented May11,1915.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. I. 19l3.

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BENJAMIN JOACHIM, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, AND BENJAMIN DAVIDSON, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May itt, 1915.

Application led April 1, 1918. Serial No. 758,120.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, BENJAMIN JOACHIM, a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and BENJAMJN DAVIDSON, a resident of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, bothcitizens of the United States, have invented a new and lmproved Means for Attaching Collars and other Neckwear to Shirts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has special reference to means for attaching collars and other neckwear to shirts, and broadly speaking, the invention constitutes a tangible element carried by the neck band of a shirt and an intangible element carried by the collar or neckwear for convenient attachment and removal of the collar at the back of the neck band, thus providing space for the free sliding of the tie, as well as obviating the use of buttons. v

fn carrying out our invention, it is our aim to provide the neck band of a shirt with a tongue extendingdownwardly to form a substantially hook-like member, and to provide the collar with a pocket, or to provide a plurality of such tongues and pockets, for attaching the collar and not only permitting its convenient attachment and removal, but also causing a better t and permittingcollars and shirts to be manufactured with but a slight modicationand laundried in the usual manner.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides more particularly in the peculiar combinations and arrangements of parts which will be illustrated as a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings -and described in the specification.

Reference is to'be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a collar and a fragmentary portion of a shirt, with the collar held on the neck band; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a fragmentary portion of a shirt and its neck band with its' collar-engaging member; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a fragmentary portion of a collar having a pocket; Fig. 4 is a similar view of a collar with a modified form of pocket; Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of a shirt portion and its neck band having a plurality of hook-like attaching members; and Fig. 6 1s a similar view of a collar, with a plurality of pockets. y

ln the illustrated embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3, the numeral l0 designates a coll-ar of any preferred type and any number of plies, although we have illustrated the same as being made of three-plies. A fragmentary portion 11 of a shirt is also shown, and the neck band l2 is provided with a depending tongue or hookhke member 13, the same being formed with, attached to or otherwise carried by the neck band, and preferably depending' from the top edge of the latter to a point near its lower edge. rlhe free extremity of the tongue is also preferably rounded as shown.

The tongue 13, which forms with the neck band a substantially hook-like engaging member, takes the place of an ordinary collar button and is of such material as to be laundried with the shirt. ln order to provide a collar to be engaged by the tongue or 4hook-like member, the inner plies of the collar are out longitudinally, as shown at 14.-, to produce a relatively elongated pocket 15 with the outer plies, and such pocket is adapted to be engaged by the tongue in the manner shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Owing to the fact that the pocket forms an inclosure for the tongue, it will be seen that any tendency of the collar to ride up- `wardly will be prevented by the forcive engagement of the opposed faces of the tongue with the inner faces of the plies for-ming thel with respect to the pocket.

In Fig. 4t of the drawings a modified form of pocket is illustrated, the same being designated by the numeral 16 as a section forming a relatively restricted slot or opening in the collar so as to conform to the shape of the tongue or hook-like engaging member carried by the band, and in this way prevent movement of the collar with respect to the band if desired.

'In Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings a modified form of attaching means is illustrated,`

and the neckhhand shown in Fig. 5 is provided with a plurality of depending tongues 18, which in this case are shown as extending from a point spaced below the top edge of p of the central tongue. In Fig. 6 a collar 19 is shown as adapted for use with the attaching means illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, and in this form of the invention' the collar is provided with a plurality of pockets 20 which may take either of the 'forms above described. It is, of course, understood that these pockets are equi-distantly spaced with respect to the relation or spacing of the tongues 18 -so that the parts may be readily engaged in yattaching the collar. Thus it will be seen that we haveobviated the necessity of using buttons for attaching collars to neck bands or for securing other neckwear to shirts, especially at the back portion, and thus we have obviated the -objections usually dried in theusual manner and the elements carried thereby form a permanent, wearresisting and reliable attaching means.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a neck band having a tongue; of a collar having a pocket located between the plies of the collar and engageable by said tongue, said pocket having an open end and closed sides at the entrance opening thereof and a bottom. for engagement by the end of the tongue, whereby displacement of the tongue laterally is prevented.

2. The combination with the neck portion of an article of apparel having a plurality of tongues disposed centrally and at the resulting from the using of` buttons. The shirt and collar may be launf.

1...: maaaas sides thereof, said tongues depending from a point below the upper edge of said neckl adapted to receive the engaging members produced by said tongues.

3. The combination with the neck band of a shirt comprising a plurality'of plies of material and having the usual buttonholes at the ends thereof and a plurality, of tongues stamped from certain plies of the -material, said tongues being located centrally of the length 'of the band at the back thereof when the band is in position and at spaced points 'at either side of the central tongue and inwardly of the buttonholes; of a collar also comprising a pluralityofplies and having buttonholes, near its ends and pockets located between certain Aplies thereof in similar relation to the disposition of the tongues in the band and adapted to be engaged by said tongues to secure the collar to the band and prevent upward displacement thereof relative thereto, said tongues when engaged in the pockets being hidden from view. i

In testimony whereof I, BENJAMIN JOACHIM, have signed my name to this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' BENJAMIN JOACHIM. Witnesses:

J. EDWIN BUncH, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.4 In testimony whereof I, BENJAMIN DAVID- soN, have signed my name l,to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

b BENJAMIN DAVIDSON.

Witnesses:

G. R. DEXTER, KINGSTON ELLIS. 

